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Friday Fun: Can you guess where I am?

Monique vdB

For today's Friday Fun, inspired by Katie from Air B&B, we are doing a treasure hunt!

Below is a cropped photo of a famous location somewhere in the world. Can you guess where it is?

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The person who guesses right gets to go next, so get your photos ready.

Thanks to @Laura for the game idea!

Comments

John Funk

Trevi fountain in Rome?

Jack Brickey

fountain in my back yard.

Jimmy Seddon

I was going to say the same thing, in the limited world traveling I have done that is one place I have actually visited.

Darline Auguste

This is also my guess!

Monique vdB

@John Funk you (and Jimmy and Darline) are all correct! You get to pick the next picture though!

Monique vdB

lol

Laura

Trevi fountain! Love this game. It reminds me of one I played during a virtual happy hour where they show a google maps view and you guess where in the world it is.

Here's the link in case anyone needs a new virtual happy hour game! https://www.geoguessr.com/

John Funk

Picture 2!!

Esther Strom

One of the smaller pyramids at Giza?

Jimmy Seddon

Picture #3

Jimmy Seddon

Tough one @John Funk ... I'm going to agree with @Esther Strom because I can't think of anything and and that guess seems reasonable.

Esther Strom

That's the Bellagio in Vegas, isn't it? I was supposed to stay there for Summit in March; it would have been my first trip to Vegas

Jimmy Seddon

@Esther Strom you nailed that one! That was from the 2019 Summit (as I said I don't get out much).

Feel free to post the next one!

Esther Strom

Woohoo! (I don't get out much either; I only recognized it because I did so much GIS'ing back in February before things were canceled.)

Esther Strom

Picture #4

Ivan Lima

Park Guell in Barcelona?

Jack Brickey

Pyramid of Kheops

Jack Brickey

Agreed

Esther Strom

Yeah, I figured as soon as I posted that it was going to be easy... I'm guessing at least some of you were there the same time I was! (Summit 2018.)

@Ivan Lima you're next!

Ivan Lima

Picture #5

Jack Brickey

Possibly San Diego, CA?

Ivan Lima

Correct. La Jolla in San Diego. Stunning place and I’m glad the there is no such thing as “digital smell”.

It looks like you’re the next one.

Jack Brickey

From one of my travels...

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Central Park, Manhattan!

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

This one might be a challenge - where is "The house that Jack built"?

Jack Brickey

Yes indeed!

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Must admit the works of Charles Dodgson are a favourite of mine, so I stumble into things like this more than most. That sculpture was not there last time I visited NY, but it's on the list for 2023.

Liam Green

@Nic Brough -Adaptavist- - I feel like this is somewhere in England (or the UK if I'm wrong), but I really don't know where!

@Monique vdB - I love this game!!

Jack Brickey

Maybe Cherrington in Shropshire England? Just a guess based on my google investigation on the origins of the children’s rhyme.

Monique vdB

This is hard to Google! @Ivan Lima does your Google lens work on this one?

Otherwise we might need another clue @Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Phil Vitale

Is it Rome or Vegas?

Monique vdB

@Phil Vitale yes the original post was the Trevi Fountain! Esther's gonna try and stump us next.

Esther Strom

(Original one was unfair since it wasn't a permanent part of the location; if anyone saw it before I changed it, it was a yarn-bombed window at Blarney Castle.)

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Jack Brickey

Somewhere in the Crochet Islands? ;-)

this is going to be tough!!!

Esther Strom

You're too fast, @Jack Brickey ! I changed it; I figured it wasn't fair since the photo was one I took last year and might not have been part of the site for more than a week.

Jack Brickey

that was my second guess!

maybe Epcot but there are a number of geo-domes around so...

Jack Brickey

Ok so hopefully this is hard but someone can still figure it out. I visited here during a business trip many years ago and hope to return. If no one gets it within a couple days I can expose a bit more of the photo.

Liam Green

@Jack Brickey is that the Guinness factory in Dublin?

Jack Brickey

Ah another lover of Guinness possibly? Indeed it is!!

stump us Liam.

Liam Green

I think my photo will be far too easy - but it's very special to me as it was the first time my fianceé and I left our home continent together. I've cropped to make it a bit harder but I'm sure someone will be getting it very quickly!

John Funk

Brooklyn Bridge?

Liam Green

Correct @John Funk - I did say it was easy!

I know you've done this already John but do you want another go?

Esther Strom

I was just there last summer! Can't believe I didn't recognize it.

John Funk

This one is likely easy also.

Monique vdB

Um... it's.... the.... yeah, no idea. Is it one of those tall buildings in Dubai?

John Funk

Nope

Jack Brickey

Is that Finn the Human from Adventure Time?

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

So, as @Monique vdB says I get another go, here's one from a holiday (yes, please do ignore Chrissy's hair at the left, the other photos from this walk were fuzzier, less green or had even more of my family in them).

I thought a landscape would be a change from the buildings we've seen so far. But I know that landscapes are much harder to place, especially when there is nothing peculiarly distinctive in them, like a unique building. So a small clue is that if you can work out what nuclear reactors are in the photo, we're around 20 miles from them...

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Oh, and I'm looking for the name of the hill / park we're in before I'll admit you've found us.

Jack Brickey

I’m thinking this is Collard Hill. I saw a BBC bit on the blue butterfly 🦋 several years back on BBC and this looks like that area.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

I like the thinking, I was ambling around there a few years back (I'm one of those people who bought a lifetime National Trust membership and probably used it so much, I made it worth it within half a decade)

But no, Street doesn't have that view of the Atlantic or that many nukes.

Soumyadeep Mandal

It was Trevi Fountain, Piazza di Trevi from Rome, Italy

Gonchik Tsymzhitov

Wow!

I have not known like this game maybe better to have time to like this game during zoom call.

Soumyadeep Mandal - SaM

Hey,

It was a pretty nice place.

It was Trevi Fountain, Piazza di Trevi from Rome, Italy

Regards,

Soumyadeep

Suvradip Paul

Love this game. I was checking some old Friday-Fun Posts and came to this thread.

Can you guess this place?

Monique vdB

Aw yes, thank you for bringing it back up @Suvradip Paul! I am going to randomly guess the British library. It looks like an old-timey European library to me!

Suvradip Paul

No sorry @Monique vdB it's not library. But thanks for guessing.

Suvradip Paul

@Monique vdB - I can give a hint. A movie set was created in studios with references and photos from this place.

Suvradip Paul

@Monique vdB - You are on right way ! It's based in UK. I am giving another clue.

@Esther Strom , @Nic Brough -Adaptavist- - Your guess please.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Christ Church College dining hall, at Oxford university.

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